BY ANKIT BISTSAURAV SUMANVAIBHAV GOYALVARUN

Types of Research

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What is a RESEARCH ?

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Research

ExplanatoryResearch

EvaluativeResearch

AppliedBasic

MethodPurpose

Deductive Inductive

QualitativeQuantitative

Pure Experimental

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Aim: To discover basic truths & laws

To find solution to fundamental problems

Approach: Knowledge for knowledge sake’

Done out of mere curiosity

An attempt to arrive at new discovery

An improvement over an existing theory

BASIC RESEARCH

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Area concerned : psychology, sociology and philosophy

Examples : pure math and human behavior

Results : Cannot be applied immediately in a field situation

BASIC RESEARCH (contd)

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Aim: To improve a product by testing theoretical

concepts in actual problem situations

Approach: Testing basic research theories in actual

field setting

Examples : Research in medicine

APPLIED RESEARCH

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BASIC APPLIED

Addition to knowledge Solution to existing problems

Discovery / Invention Innovation / application

Mere academic Practical use in solving a problem

Extensive in nature Intensive in nature

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DEDUCTIVE RESEARCH

THEORY

HYPOTHESIS

OBSERVATION

CONFIRMATION

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INDUCTIVE RESEARCH

THEORY

TENTATIVEHYPOTHESIS

OBSERVATION

PATTERN

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DEDUCTIVE INDUCTIVE

Logic Experiments

Inferences Actual Observations

General to specific Specific to general

Descriptive research Hypothesis Testing

For a Program or Activity that we want to evaluate, assess or appraise

Choosing a Method to EvaluateQuantitative Methods

Benefit/Cost AnalysisCost Effectiveness Analysis

Qualitative MethodsCase StudyFocus groups ( perceptions, opinions, beliefs and

attitudes )Narratives Grounded Theory( a description of the steps of the

process)Ethnography ( scientific research strategy)

EVALUATIVE RESEARCH

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